Although the garments created by Salvatore Ferragamo didn’t impress me much when unveiled during Milan Fashion Week in September, the adverts look beautiful. Maybe it’s Claudia Schiffer who brought her charm to pictures and made those attractive or just environment changed and we see these clothes how they really look.
No matter what has happened I like the photos. Claudia looks elegant and outfits are glamorous. Accessories are great, especially the shoes. Handbags look beautiful, too.
Photography: Mario Testino.
We’ve already reported about fashion at Milan Fashion Week. Last time we covered collections, created by popular designers, showed you amazing pics and video.
Donatella Versace presented Spring/Summer 2010shoes collection inspired by Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland movie. Lots of high platforms, bright and craza patterns, geometrical ornaments, the palette is bold black and white mixed with pastels.
The shoes are colorful, amazing, with an architectonic design and view, highly stylish. They were adorned with buckles, studs and cut-outs.
It has been announced that Salvatore Ferragamo was to replace Cristina Ortiz by Massimiliano Giornetti in the role of a head designer of the brand for womenwear.
And to leave with success Cristina tried her best to create the collection for Spring/Summer 2010.
This wan’t easy since her previous collection had been received rather coldly.
However, the designer was able to make a few pieces that extablished her fashion view clearly and really hit the runway.
The number of pale coats in crocodile, python and laser-cut leather looked beautiful as did pastel-colored loose-fitting blouses.
Some dresses looked fabulous, especially those of a simplier design.
Nevertheless, the African inspiration that led to the creation of plenty of unflattering jodhpurs cut very generously at the hips was not the best she could have an idea from.
The pants as well as skirts with the hip detailing didn’t look interesting or glamourous. It was an obvious fashion error.
As it seems to me this new season most of the brands tend to keep their usual way of designing clothes.
Missoni stick to using cashmere, Marchesa works on red-carpet gowns and Etro is focused on exotic prints and fabrics.
But the Spring/Summer 2010 collection is a bit reserved in comparison to the ones Veronica Etro created in previous seasons. I mean the colors and even the number of details included in outfits.
Lots of satin, chiffon and voils were used in everything from pajamas to multilayered dresses. Prints were nice, often intricate and then they were simple and even severe. Colors ranged from mushroom and dusty pinks to violets.
Milan Fashion Week wouldn’t be complete without the show of this particular designer – Donatella Versace, a person of unusual vision of things and skills to embody that into her creations.
The Spring/Summer collection 2010 was inspired by Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (which comes out next March).
I loved the idea of that fantasyland,” said Donatella.
Although usually the designer works to make pieces good for grown-ups, this time she decided to create for those who look younger, that has been a trend with designers for some time. It’s just that Donatella shows her own opinion of how young people should look like. These are not only too short skirts and sheer materials which are often visible in other designers’ collections but something else, more significant.
Versace was able to make pieces interesting for modern youngsters – stylish, innovative but still very classy and feminine. Vivid pastels, geometric prints, baroque curlicues, super-short skirts, diverse materials and elaborate combinations of fabrics make the colelction look fresh and sumptuous.
Spring/Summer 2010 collection by Gucci was something one could hardly expect to see. We all know recent Gucci disco-hippi style but what has been showcased in Milan this year is far different from that.
To begin the show Frida Giannini presented a clinging multi-strapped dress that immediately tuned everyone in the audience onto the wave of glamour and chic. The modernist streak the designer used to avoid in the past was really impressive and gave the show a new twist.
The white part of the collection is fantastic. Jackets and high-waisted stretch leggings, inset with sections of sports mesh and lashed through the torso and outside leg with crisscross lacings of rubber piping, bristling with silver hardware; motocross and minimized parachute jackets and crocodile bikers; and at the same time very femininne mini dresses – all looked impressive.
Then folloed mostly grey and metallic pallette in tight-fitting pants, unusual skirt suits, and perfect reptile leather jackets. These garments were much closer to what we were used to see in Gucci.
Black and white collection, with red and pink splashes was the release of the new collection by Dolce&Gabbana at Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010 RTW.
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana view the next hot seasons in dramatic colors and in the light of glamour.
The designers named the show “Heritage,” and filled it with Dolce&Gabbana’s signatures, laced with a piece of tango.
This is the first collection from Milan Fashion Week that I’m going to give the review for.
The choice wasn’t sudden, I do love Missoni a lot. And winter collection was fantastic.
Now the Spring/Summer 2010 range is very much similar to the one for cold months and I think this isn’t very good as summer is too warm and we prefer light fabrics anyway instead of cashmere and mohair.
However, speaking about the designs I can say they are new and interesting. I liked long clinging dresses, skirts and tops.
Layers are in plenty and they look nice but I still consider there are too many of those for a sunny season. Loose-mesh cargigans are beautiful and stylish as well as tank dresses worn under them.
Accessories are present though not in quantity.
Long knitwear jewelry, whistles on silver chains, bracelets gripping each bicep, and low-heel sandals with woven souvenir ankle bracelets for straps are very feminine innovations to the collection.
This sounds crazy but Miuccia Prada liked the fact her catwalk models fell down while showcasing her 2009 spring collection.
Two models fell down right on the catwalk wearing high-heeled reptile-leather shoes. The designer didn’t get upset, she even felt pleased (!!!), as this falls made her show at Milan Fashion Week last September memorable.
She said:
I liked it. It made the show more interesting.”
While Miuccia was enjoying the success her models were terrified about walking out in those skyscraper-heels.
One beauty said:
I was having a panic attack, my hands were shaking. The heels were so high. Some of the girls were crying backstage they were so scared.”
Well, maybe the designer wouldn’t agree with me but no fashion is worth people’s suffering. This has to be stopped.
When we say “stylish” we actually mean “well-dressed”. How many modern stars can we call stylish?
Lots. But who of them are style icons? The question is difficult to answer as almost none of them can be compared to Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn in their ability to combine garments keeping the same style all the time.
Though skinny jeans look great doctors say they can be dangerous for our health. According to some experts tight jeans might cause a nerve problem called meralgia paresthetica.
Together with high stilettos skinny jeans put great pressure on the femoral cutaneous nerve that runs through the thigh. As a result ladies often feel tingling and burning through the leg.
All that big-breast mania we have now is a complete nonsense! No matter what your bra size is, your bust can look nice if you know how to “wear” it.
And many men like girls with chest much smaller than Pamela Anderson’s! Besides, the majority of designers create their garments for ladies with smaller busts.
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Spring/Summer 2010 RTW
We'd all been looking forward to Spring/Summer 2010 shows in New York, London, Milan and Paris and the shows did not disappoint us!
The catwalk shows of most popular designers were great!
You can see them all here! Just click on the name of designer and you will see the beautiful styles and amazing designs for the new fashion season.
Hot fashion trends for Autumn (Fall) 2009 - Winter 2009-2010
As summer is close to its end, more and more of us start thinking about our autumn and winter wardrobes.
This is pretty normal as we need time to understand what exactly we want and need, and then with a few (or plenty!!!) ideas in mind go shopping to purchase all those nice clothes we will shine in.
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Fashion trends: Belt Fall 2009-Winter 2010
Belt is worn for practical purpose or just as a decorative item.
But no matter what we wear it for we should be very careful when choosing the style of the belt.As any other item of clothes belts have styles and are not versatile for the exception of classic designs.
It is not a secret that women love bags. Some ladies follow fashion trends when they choose a new bag, others just buy a bag that they feel will look great.
Clutches of this season come in a huge variety. Some are rather simple and can be worn with casual clothes.
Let's see color fashion trends for Fall 2009 and Winter 2009-2010.
Since the recession affected our lives strongly the majority of designers reduced the number of items in their collections, made them simpler, used cheaper materials trying to offer the customers something they can afford buying.
This article will give you full information about styles of dresses and gowns to be most popular in the coming cold months, for Autumn-Winter 2009-2010.
The old fashion trend is back. Leggings make their way back to our wardrobes this season making us look both hip and casual. Celebrity trend setters seem to enjoy this old-turned-new style and often wear leggings accessorizing them with flats, stiletto heels, layered necklaces, scarves, dresses, tunics, and bags. Some celebs even turn their love of leggings into a business.
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February is the last month of winter and it means soon it will become warmer. That’s great! Besides, this month we celebrate one of the best holidays – St.Valentine’s Day. I love it as it’s like the New Year when all our dreams come true.
Lets’s see what stars advise us, beautfiul, to wear in February to be the luckiest and look the most fabulous.
Aries
You are obsessed with shopping and it obviously makes you feel perfect. In February pay attention to jackets, they will work best for you. Find good combinations with skirts and trousers and look stylish and elegant. Think of accessories to add glamour to your look. Your colors are blue and black.
